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éS Footwear premieres it's heavily anticipated Menikmati video to wide public acclaim. The arrival of Menikmati inspires a new movement of shoe company skate videos into an arena that had previously been dominated in large part by hardgoods manufacturers.

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New Brazilian import Rodrigo Tx. finds his way onto the éS team by way of Bob Burnquist. Rodrigo will go on to amaze everyone with his uncanny switch skating ability and his penchant for combining tricks in a way that no one thought possible.

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Eric Koston threepeats contest wins at the Globe World Contest in Dortmund, Germany; X Games in San Francisco, California and Gravity Games in Providence, Rhode Island.

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The éS Spring line adds the Cyber, the Diode and the Scheme. The Fall line adds the Eclipse, the Logic, the Pulsar and the Vega. The Holiday line adds Eric Koston's third pro model skate shoe, the K3.

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éS introduces Tri-Tek™, a completely new kind of Ollie protection developed from EVA, rubber crystals and phylon, which grips like rubber without wearing down quickly or destroying grip tape, on the Cyber and the Diode models.

2000 Headlines

Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted.

In Sacramento, California, a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the State Capitol building, killing the driver.

The final original Peanuts comic strip is published.

Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States anti-trust laws by keeping an oppressive thumb on its competitors.

A Concorde carrying Air France Flight 4590 crashes just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and five on the ground.

The 2000 Summer Olympics open in Sydney, Australia.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.

U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.

It's weird how tech shoes were back in like 2000 and then to look at them 5 years later now there all simple and generic looking they are. I think it's kinda sad cause most companies all have similar designs and junk, I still can't figure out what brought on this whole wave of simple generic shoe...

id rather pay $100 for a tech shoe with all the good features that looks good than a normal boring skateshoe with no logos. i want people to know im riding es. when i wear the koston 7's people ask what kind of shoe im wearing.make designs like the red/white koston4 like b-ball shoes.

I find older skate shoes kinka look like teched out running shoes, like Lakai and eS, but now these days, skate shoes clearly have their own unique style. When did the EOS come out? I still have no idea what that shoe was.

I've been skating 'eS for 9 years, from the very start. The first two pairs were the SLB and the Uno. I've always trusted and loved these shoes. Trends come and go. The tech shoes were nice but trust what 'eS is putting out. The Penny 2 is an amazing shoe. The Penny 2 low top should be nice as well. Remember, it's about the skating, the culture, and the love of what you do. 'eS embodies all of these things.

Cobbs kills rec park on sunday, but he had no one to sk8 with
Craig becomes better and better at paintball, and wins the tournement on sunday
B-dogg still working and hard at work @ GHS
Johnny gets his gurl stolen from him(Alicia) by Brad
Luke might become the new team rider for 720
Cobbs will be going to europe in October

Es should have a friends section in the new video. That would be good. Anyone know who is putting the video together and editing it? I bet P.J. has the ender. With the current line up this video is gonna be soooo good.
I just bought the accelerates and they feel pretty good. They have a different shape to em compared to the accel. More space, a bit wider. Should skate pretty good, they look sick.

i got menikmati on dvd a year ago. i was so lucky to get it cause you cant find it anywhere anymore. i thoroughly enjoy watching it.
on a completely different subject, i've also noticed, with just about everyone else, that over the past five years, the design in skate shoes has become more toned down and more basic. One good example is the Emerica Reynolds line. His first model had the airbag, rubber toecap, and plenty of other features. it looked damn good on top of that. then its starts to become more simple with his second model and then his third model comes around and it looks like a damn converse all-star with no padding or hardly any protection. i guess what im trying to get at is that there wasn't reallly anything wrong with having "teched out" shoes and that you should start to make them again.

You guys should do a countdown to the new shoes/colorways on the main page were Justin has his little sequence so people will know like how many days until the new colorwasys and shoes come out that'd be kind of funny-like the new years countdown

i think there a new shoe era coming or its already started and i think its the simple shoe era. all the shoes at skateshops look almost the same as the other. theres usually no kind of special features that sets them apart from appearance.now all you see is one colored shoes that almost looks the same as the other. atleast that what i think.

Koston 6 high sounds nasty I thought they were called K 6.5? When did the k6 come out I saw this one pic on the web and the K6 had a different design than the current one it was kind of strange, itwas when the K5 and EK-01 were still around. There's a link below the weird K6's are twoards the bottom of the page, sorry it's kinda long-

Yeah for sure nowadays skate shoes are all the same and they all are either grey, brown, black or white. Even shirts and skate clothes in general are all plain and ugly it is hard to find clothes that stand out anymore. I loved all the crazy designs and colorways that companies Like Es, Axion, Dc and Dvs had back then my favs were the the Daewon3's the Schemes, and the Red Josh Kalis's

The "simple" skate shoes as they've been called on this message board have all been 'es clones. 'eS still is the best, no matter if they're tech or classic. If you don't like tech shoes, go to DC. They're more than happy to take your dollar for some nasty copies of current Nike and Reebok styles.

yeah, that happened to my accelerates too- the grip pealed off the insole, so it was extra bubbly. but it was only on my left shoe. es needs a shoe that is simple but doesnt have an eva midsole- the maccel and cramer are too puffy. something like rey2 where its polyurethane midsole but simple

dude on those invisible man shoes i did a kickflip and it totally got scratched up! i dont know if its accually going to rip or its just scratched. what do you think? i think these shoes werent supposed to be skated...damnit

Tom Penny, by far, is the best skater on eS. He doesn't enter contests, he has no need for them. All he does is skate for himself. He's an enigma, but that's what makes him so great. I saw him skating once in Europe and that was the best part of the trip. He's like the white whale, so elusive yet so amazing when you see him.

i noticed that in all of the es blogs every one is talking about how we all cant find all these classic shoes that we all know and love so yesterday i was in my mall and i saw a store called extremes (a ghetto fabooolous store) so i walked in and saw some shoes that looked like classic skate shoes so i walked over and saw a whole array of reynolds ones k3,s as well as many other classic skate shoes which seems very odd 1 the fact that they had the shoes and how they got them and 2 y they had them because thats there market of shoes

You can skate in some Nikes, I tryed sakting in some old Nike Air Revolutions one time they really nice to skate
cept there my dad's throwbacks so I stoped skating um. I've also seen people were Air Force 1's while skating.

All you guys are saying shoes today are so generic and that way back shoes used to be different and distinguished. Look at the chart of shoes up at the top. Now forget the colours, and just imagine sihlouettes. They all have virtually the exact same shape and dimensions. The only one that is signifigantly different it the K3.

my guess is it would be the angle of the shot and you just can't see the fifth. But I have an ad with Paul Rodriguez introducing the Accel Plus and it's the exact same colorway and you can see all the eyelets. Maybe that pic is a prototype accel plus?

ay dude Neubareere- if your not gonna skate shoes what would you do with them? the real appreaciation of shoes is when you look at them in the corner when there totally blown out and you go,"damn, i remember those shoes..." i think its stupid to waste a good shoe like that.

Penny is an enigma. He doesn't need to follow in the steps of self-promoting skaters. He does what he wants when he wants and when he wants to skate, it's a eautiful thing to watch. He is absolutely amazig. I've been following that cat since 1996. Never get tired of Tom Penny. He's a true legend.

Marc, I know it is kinda cool to look back at old blown out shoes I agree, especially your first skate shoes that you started with, I just didn't get why anyone would skate a limited edition shoe, I think the whole idea behind limited edition shoes is kinda dumb personally

Here's some fun trivia about the Koston 3 ad pictured above. Eric wasn't wearing Koston 3's when he shot that photo. The art dudes (I think it was Ako Jefferson) had to photoshop the K3's on Koston's feet. They did I good job. You only really noticed it if you look hard enough. Take a look for yourself.